very nice! I love 'em too but recently my stellata died. grrr! It was doing quite well for a few years and then ROT.

This is my Euphorbia woodii I posted sometime last year:

Laura, don't give up. I'm guessing you can keep one alive with a lot more perlite/pumice in your mix. I don't know the rain patterns there but am guessing a lot more than on west coast.

Doc, PM me your mailing address. My in ground E. c-m made lots of babies with heads. I like that E. muirii. It looks closely related to E. gorgonis. I think I saw it listed at A.L.G.. I may have to order it. That E. clavigera is another one I like but haven't gotten to survive past 2 arm seedlings. Nice plant.

G.G., that E. woodii looks very happy! This is another one I don't have. I really can't tell the difference between it and E. flanaganii. I'm sure the flowers are different under a magnifying glass, lol.

I thought I had accumulated most of the varieties over the years. I made a list of what I had and then started adding names to the list I didn't have. It turns out my dozen+ are only 1/3 to 1/2 of the species I could find. This doesn't even account for the spiney species ie. E. stellata, etc.. Here are some more species.

Euph. escalenta. I need to get this in a little more sun so it will get more dense.

Euph. inermis v. inermis a recent addition.

Euph. inermis v. huttonii. I've had this a long time.

Euph. gamkensis. I'm trying to balance enough light for dense growth with too much light which bleaches or burns.

Aloe, there is so much confusion over these medusoid plants with name changes, etc. As an example: E. clavigara and persistens are the same plant but you will see it offered on a vendor's site at different costs for the same plant: A.L.G. has both with a $5.00 pice difference. And there is no certain information that my muirii is not, in fact, gorgonis or another large armed medusoid.

I assume your E. c-m has flowered? Did it have white cyathia? It's too cold here in Michigan for me to get much of anything besides the flu! LOL I don't see where I can PM you. You should be able to find me on Messenger or email LASSERH@HOTMAIL.COM

This is the E. caput-medusae when it was still in ground. I have added a close-up of the flowers. I've been growing one clone or another of this species for 35 years maybe. This and E. milii first got me interested in Euphorbias.

This started out as a sprawling jointed snake. This picture shows it starting to form the preferred growth heads in the middle and bottom.

Oddly enough, I don't recall this ever producing seeds. I have had a couple E. ramiglans plants for a year. Looking at one today, I note it looks extremely similar to this in the arms. I hope it is really E. ramiglans. The flowers will look similar to these substituting red for white.

Aloe, as I'm certain you know, this one and many other Euphorbia, while being monoecious, need to be crossed to produce seed. Your plant is wonderful.... TFS

That's funny. I thought I still had a piece of my first E. c-m from long ago. Now I believe all are pieces of the same clone I acquired about 25 years ago when I moved here. Thanks Doc. Just shows you are never too old to learn something new. I still haven't figured out which if not all of my Euphs are mono or dio.

I was eyeing some yesterday but I always try to restrain myself from buying Euphobias because they are ridiculously easy to kill. Here's a stellata I saw PIGged at The Aloe Farm a while back. They need strong sun to go that colour, though

That one is interesting, Nick -- looks like a spiny millipede crawling all,over a stump. :-)

I though it looked very snake-like coiled around the base like that.....but a snake with some serious spines!!

Nik; I like the segmented look on the arms. Usually those grown under friendlier conditions are flat and not with tubercles. The lines in this case actually look functional. Snake like indeed; medusoid!

The less water you give Euphorbia, the fatter it gets. I've made that mistake growing them here. They have strong light but too much water causes rampant growth...and then they rot on me. Stellata are a species known for growing in among rocks, the way this one has been planted. So the recipe here is hot, dry and sunny but cool roots

Love these!

Here's E. esculenta

I just bought my first one today I’ll post pics tomorrow when I get some daylight for a photo

Dog, that is a nice looking E. esculenta. Did it flower for you this summer?

Top and side view

Aha!

E. gorgonis

Aloebot, it didn't flower this summer. It was outside, and our weather wasn't great for succulents this year, hot at the beginning and then a very cool, damp, humid August. This one did fine, but didn't flower. Some of my other plants suffered, mainly jades and a couple of Pachypodiums.

Euph. esculenta flowering summer/fall this year.

I need to give this more light now in order to get more uniform arm length.

I’m so fascinated by these Medusoid Euphorbias, I had a plant on the way to me labeled as Euphorbia enopla inermis that I just received and I was hoping someone here would be able to help me confirm the ID? Since google hasn’t been very much help... I received it about an hour ago so I know it’s in fairly rough shape, haha

I figured I’d ask here instead of starting a new post since the Euphorbia people will probably still see it!

It doesn't look like E. enopla. It does look medusoid in the arms. There are 2 medusoids called E. inermis; E. inermis v. inermis and E. inermis v. huttonii. You probably won't be able to tell what this is for a while. It will need to flower or form a head. Maybe the sender can research their name of it more closely.

Thanks! The sender wasn’t all that great, he spoke very rude and difficult to understand English in my conversations with him. I really appreciate you getting back to me! I’ll do some more googling with those two names, see if I can tell a difference yet

Casual, you've mentioned two different Euphorbia. So, unless the seller is saying it is a hybrid of E. enopla x E. inermis, I would opt for it being E. inermis as Aloe has stated. E. enopla has red spines.

Euphorbia atroviridis. Tubercles are very pointed.

Euphorbia tuberculata. I think I need to

PIG this.

Out of curiosity, at about what age or size do this type usually form a head?

I think it depends on the species. In regards to my E. caput-medusae it was about 10 years I believe. It grew like a snake for many years. I think that when it matured enough to produce lots of flowers the heads started to appear. E. flanaganii seems to be much faster to produce heads. It may take only a couple years.